Reading the entrails -- The Golden Age -- Hardboiled and pulp -- Private eyes -- Cops -- Professionals -- Amateurs -- All in the mind -- The killer inside me -- In the belly of the beast -- Organized crime -- Crime and society -- Espionage -- Through a glass darkly -- Foreign bloodshed.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world's most popular literary genre. The insider's book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You'll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ... all the evidence that counts." --
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Spine Title
Crime fiction
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Detective and mystery stories, American-- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English-- History and criticism.